US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on May 20 for "Angle detector, AC-rotating-machine controller, and electric power steering apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,576, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Angle detector, AC-rotating-machine controller, and electric power steering apparatus" was invented by Yuya Tsuchimoto (Tokyo), Tatsuya Mori (Tokyo), Isao Kezobo (Tokyo), Satoru Akutsu (Tokyo), Isao Sonoda (Tokyo) and Genki Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angle detector including; a magnet being mounted on a rotation axle and that has a first track magnetized in P pole-pairs and second track magnetized in Q pole-pairs, a first hole device group that senses magnetic flux from the first track, a second hole device group that senses magnetic flux f...